• Final solutions are announced
• Slide uploaded (till 6/5)
• Slide uploaded (till 5/29)
• Presentation order updated (two presenters a week due to the schedule limitation)
• Slide uploaded (till 5/22)
• Midterm solutions uploaded
• Presentation order updated (till 6/19)
• Midterm review updated
• Slide uploaded (till 4/16).
• Presentation order updated (till 4/3).
• Talk Announcement: Challenge of the Last 100 Meters Access Technologies in 2008. Lecturer: Dr. Nim K. Cheung
• Slide uploaded (till 3/13).

This course will provide a broad coverage on various topics in networks services and applications in practice. Focus will be put on the architecture and working at the application layer. Lower level protocols will be addressed to the level that is sufficient for the students to understand the higher layer applications. The goal of the course is to equip the students with general understanding of the workings of the real-world network services/applications and management.

he first part of this course will cover fundamentals of networks, including architecture, design, operation and management of telecommunication networks and services (wireline, wireless and the Internet). Specific topics include, but are not limited to, PSTN telephony, IN (Intelligent Network) services, 2G/3G telephony and data services, mobility management, IMS applications, VoIP, and OSS (Operation Support Systems).

The second part of this course will address modern and emerging network applications and services. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, foundations of and techniques in web search, web data management, peer-to-peer networks, content networks, mobile data management, sensor networks and telematics (based on vehicular-to-vehicular and vehicular-to-infrastructure communications)

The class will include lectures, instructor-led discussions and student presentations. There are no required textbooks but part of the class lectures will be drawn from the following books and documents (mostly for the 1st part of the course). A list of papers will also be distributed at the beginning of the semester for reading and presentations (mostly for the 2nd part of the course). Students are expected to read the assigned materials before coming to the class to get the best benefits out of the class.

Mid-term exam: 30%
Presentation (including Q&A): 30%
Term Project: 40%

Mid-term will be based on course materials and aimed at assessing students’ understanding of the basics of the course content. Depending on the size of the class and the number of papers assigned, each presentation may be given by one or a small group of students. The term project will be an in-depth survey or study of a related subject covered in the course. New ideas or improvements on prior work in the literature will receive extra credits. Term projects may be carried out by groups, depending on the scope of the subject. A term paper must be submitted as the deliverable of the project.

TA: Shan-Hung Wu
Contact with TA for any question.

電腦網路導論，計算機結構

• 2/20 Class schedule
• 2/20 Reading list
• 3/06 Telecom. overview
• 3/13 PSTN
• 4/16 IN
• 4/16 ATM
• 4/16 SONET
• 4/21 Midterm review
• 5/22 Midterm solutions
• 5/22 Access network
• 5/29 Mobile PP-NP
• 6/05 WAP, SMS, and MMS
• 6/05 Mobile Network

• Presentation order